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1782-10-09

DECREE of the Conseil of the Cap, concerning 1°. nègres taken by the Enemy, led to Jamaica, and brought back to the Colony to be sold there, and 2°. one of the said nègres announced as free

Haitian

BETWEEN the sieur Pesseville, residing at the Cap, Appellant, of the one part; And the sieur Cappé, Respondent, of the other part; And further the man named la Tortue N. L. Appellant of the other part; and the aforesaid sieur Cappé, Respondent on the appeal from the said Sentence, of the other part. Seen, etc. After Champion, Avocat for Pesseville, Laborie, Avocat for the respondent; and Moreau de S. Méry, Avocat for la Tortue, were heard at the hearings of the 4th, 5th, 7th and 8th of this month, as well as at that of this day; together with de S. Martin the son, Substitut of the Procureur-Général du Roi, and all considered: THE COURT joining the cases, and ruling on the respective appeals and demands of the Parties, and ruling on the whole by one and the same Decree; as to the appeals, has set and does set the appeals aside; orders that what is appealed from shall take effect; sentences the appellants, each within his own right, to the ordinary fine and to costs.

Source  ·  p. act 06:247 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 6) (1784-1790), p. act 06:247